Getting people into Linux
Dave Sampson
samper.d at gmail.com
Mon Jan 1 19:33:28 UTC 2007
I'm sure this would be a tough stat to come across.... but maybe some
basic statistics can be derived...
Check out http://www.linux-stats.org/index.php
It follows computer use of registered systems... sorta like SETI project.
Any other Stats resources?
Max Pyziur wrote:
> On Sun, 31 Dec 2006, Dave Sampson wrote:
>
>> Hey folks,
>>
>> The chat about this subject is pretty good. I will share some
>> thoughts and experiences.
>>
>> First and foremost I am an open source geographer, so instead of
>> convincing people to move to Linux as a rebuke against the system I
>> try to expose other geographers and neo-geographers (all the folks
>> that like google earth and google maps etc) to the world of free
>> software and free data for that software. Now the projects I am
>> interested in are all cross platform, but their ancestors are from
>> the Linux world.
>>
>> In my journeys I have helped organize users groups and helped two
>> like groups in Ottawa merge into one.
>> http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Ottawa_Chapter the success of the
>> merge was based on the Open Geospatial foundation www.osgeo.org . the
>> benefit of this foundation is means to rally with other people and
>> share resources to promote open source geomatics tools. We focus on
>> projects, not necessarily OS's as we promote cross platform.
>>
>
>
> [... good information deleted for the sake of brevity ...]
>
> Are there any statistics which are published regularly which show the
> adoption of Linux, both at the server and desktop levels, over the
> last 5-10 years?
>
> Here are stats from a website which I've been running for a number of
> years. One set of stats is from December 2006, the other from December
> 2003. There has been no advocacy of OS's, but the server has been
> running some flavor of RedHat/Fedora since 2000.
>
> Dec 2006
> 1: 3747858: OS unknown
> 2: 1263906: Windows
> 3: 46073: Macintosh
> 4: 16892: Unix
> : 16367: Linux
> : 273: SunOS
> : 129: BSD
> : 91: HP-UX
> : 25: Other Unix
> : 7: IRIX
> 5: 312: WebTV
> 6: 30: OS/2
> 7: 30: RISC OS
> 8: 4: Amiga
> 9: 3: OpenVMS
> 10: 1: BeOS
>
> Dec 2003
> 1: 1507785: Windows
> 2: 564883: OS unknown
> 3: 38119: Macintosh
> 4: 9641: Unix
> : 8400: Linux
> : 945: SunOS
> : 150: BSD
> : 48: OSF1
> : 38: Other Unix
> : 26: IRIX
> : 23: AIX
> : 11: HP-UX
> 5: 530: WebTV
> 6: 90: OS/2
> 7: 48: RISC OS
> 8: 4: BeOS
>
> (The Unix section has been expanded to show more detail)
>
> Personally, there is no doubt that the Linux community is incredibly
> active on a virtual level, as exhibited by the vitality of the key
> projects (Apache, sendmail, Linux kernel, etc), as well as some of the
> obscure ones (gnomad2, various Perl Modules, etc). However, I have
> yet to physically walk into an environment (workplace, university
> computer lab) where you could discern non-Windows/Mac users of any
> sort of breadth or depth.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Max Pyziur
> pyz at brama.com
> Desktop Linux user since 1998
>
>
>
>>
>>
>>
>> Guillermo Garron wrote:
>>> On 12/31/06, Norm <maillist at sios.ca> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Guillermo.
>>>> Good to see that you are doing your part. I don't have any
>>>> recycled PC
>>>> available at this time and none "promised". If I acquire several
>>>> (enough to make shipping them worth while) are you in a position to
>>>> distribute them?
>>> Sure I can, I can work together with Universities, to make them help
>>> me distribute them.
>>> thanks a lot, and if you can that will be appreciated
>>>> Recently I found a well written howto on SSL certificates at
>>>> http://www.eclectica.ca/howto/ssl-cert-howto.php, He does have a
>>>> Spanish
>>>> version on line already but it may be a good quick add to your site.
>>> Thank you a lot, I will add both the English and the Spanish versions.
>>>
>>> regards,
>>>
>>
>>
>
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